This is not to say that utopian and dystopian prediction has ceased - far from it; but the social changes now imagined for the future, or for societies that bear a strong resemblance to our own, are not remotely constructive.
When the Apollo programme involves 20,000 contractors, it ceases to matter how far from the actual launch site their factories are; they could as easily be in Britain as in the United States.
Far from ceasing, advances on single lots actually grew at Sotheby's from 1 in 1992 to 3 in 1993 to 9 in 1994 to 10 in 1995, Ms. Nelson testified.
Within the frontiers the army was kept at full strength, mostly by local recruiting of legionaries and apparently of auxiliaries, too (so that Vespasian's system of having the latter serve far from their homelands gradually ceased).
Russia responded to the apparent Georgian preparations by dispatching 400 paratroopers and a battery of howitzers to a staging area not far from the cease-fire line, provoking a strong protest from NATO.
"You can't go too far from the set rules, or it ceases to be a martini.
I have ceased and desisted from my trolling now.
Although the fighting in Europe officially ceased on 8 May 1945, the effects of the World War Two were far from over.
Concern for or protection or promotion of well-being or welfare ceases to be legitimate at the point at which, so far from being good for an individual, productive of their autonomy, so far from enabling the individual to create her own life, it operates to frustrate the individual's own attempts to create her own life for herself.
Far from abstraction, she is looking to create moments of such intensity that music ceases simply to be sound, but becomes an all-consuming, synaesthetic experience.
Haaretz quoted him telling Israeli diplomats that the reports of a cease-fire were "far from reflecting reality".
